AGRICULTURE NEWS - The study, which was published by The Conversation, focused on analysing social media posts that contained the word ‘elephant’ in 2019. Just over 500 000 posts fell within the parameters of the study.
The study considered the three biggest threats to elephants as identified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: poaching, habitat loss, and human-animal conflict.
Analysts found that the posts directly relating to one of these three threats accounted for only 21% of the 500 000 posts. Poaching was the most frequently discussed threat (13%), followed by human-elephant conflict (7%) and habitat loss (less than 1%). Hammond said it was concerning that so little attention was given to human-animal conflict because living with elephants came at a high cost to local communities.
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